The Shell source connector runs shell commands periodically and produces the results of these to Kafka.
The output of the command is read line by line with each line being ingested into Kafka as a separate message

Confluent Platform <https://docs.confluent.io/current/installation/installing_cp/index.html> is installed and services are running. This quick start assumes that you are using cp-demo <https://github.com/confluentinc/cp-demo>, but standalone installations are also supported.

In this demo we’ll use the Shell Source connector to read lines from a file into Kafka.